Ideas for weight loss rewards ?

So my goal is to lose 120 lbs.

I'm making a list of " weight goals " to motivate me with something to look forward to.

I'm currently at 236.

My goals on the list right now are

230 220 210 200 180 160 140 120

With 120 being the goal weight cause im short lady.

I have a goal of 120 being a weekend vacation with my SO but I'm unsure of other things to put.

We thought 230 could be a few blind boxes since i like those.

We can't really do big purchases since all of our items are confined to my room for now since we live with my parents and I'm trying to avoid food based ones.

I thought asking others going through weight loss or who already have and are now maintaining could possibly give their opinions on what some " rewards " i could set for myself and my goals.

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How have you improved your relationship with food and found a happy medium with your diet?

Hi all!

I'm looking for some advice and experiences on how you have found a happy medium with your diet while losing weight but without being crazy restrictive or too loosey goosey.

I am a 24 year old female, but in Fall of 2018 i was pushing nearly 200 lbs as a result of continual binge drinking and binge eating over the previous years. I felt like shit and hated the way i looked so i finally took the plunge and got myself on a diet, started counting calories, and working out. Within about 8 months i had shed off nearly 40 pounds and physically i felt the best i had in years, but it had taken a toll on me mentally as i became obsessed with my weight, and restrictive eating and calorie counting left me feeling immense guilt and unhappiness when i ate something that was considered "bad".

By the summer time of that year i was completely burnt out from this type of dieting so i decided to take a break from it while still trying my best to eat relatively healthy and exercise so that i wouldn't gain the weight back. As you can probably guess, by Fall of 2019 i had completely fallen off track and was back to my old ways of binge eating and being unhealthy. This has ultimately resulted in a never ending cycle of yo-yo dieting for the last year and a half where I flip flop between periods of restrictive eating and then binge-eating/eating whatever i want. In this time i have maintained a weight between 160-170 lbs, but i don’t want to stop my progress here.

For the last 4 months i had gone through a bit of a low patch where i was depressed and really unhappy which resulted in me binge eating way too frequently. I am finally in a better place now and with the new year i really want to get back on track and continue my weight loss journey and improve my health. This time around i have realized that being highly restrictive with my diet is not something that works for me anymore and ultimately isn’t sustainable in the long run. I really want to improve my relationship with food and find a happy medium where i can continue to lose weight without constantly feeling obsessive over the calories of every food i eat.

I would love to hear any and all advice of how to find this happy medium and if you've had a similar experience to me!

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GF constantly says that she wants to lose weight. However, she doesn’t want to count calories in fear of becoming obsessed. How can I help her achieve her goals without pushing her into something she doesn’t want to do?

My GF and I always talk about how good we used to look, with her “prime” being in high school and mine being in college where I had lost 90lbs. Which usually brings up the topic of weight loss. However, when I ask her if she would like to start losing weight with me via calorie counting she says that if she starts doing that she’ll become obsessed and will start starving herself to stay under the calorie count.

While I would like to provide a different alternative for weight loss other than tracking what you eat, I don’t know any other way to successfully lose weight except through tracking my food and being in a caloric deficit. What would be a good way of either losing weight via bodily cues, OR introducing calorie counting in a way where she won’t become obsessed over it?

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NSV: I bought the wrong size jeans

I’ve lost around 160 lbs over the last two years but have hit a major plateau since July and have been struggling with a lot of defeatist thoughts and temptations to slip back into old patterns. I’m coming out on the right side of it but it’s been a struggle.

One thing I’ve found that’s especially kind of messy is I’ve developed body dysmorphia, and in mirrors and pictures I feel like I look exactly the same as I did at my highest weight. I know intellectually, from the scale and the clothes I wear, I’ve lost a bunch of weight; I just don’t see or feel it, so I spend a lot of time looking at photos of other women who have the same measurements I do. I don’t believe I look like them at all, but whatever.

I’ve been buying the same style and brand of jeans in successively smaller sizes since I began losing weight because they’re cheap and fit short people well and I hate thinking about clothes, but I read a review of the jeans where someone said they were vanity sized and it was disappointing to find out they didn’t really wear size X in other jeans. I went to a thrift store the other day and picked up a couple pairs of jeans to wear outside in winter, and remembered the review. I decided I wasn’t really the size I thought I was and bought one size bigger so I wouldn’t be embarrassed/disappointed when I tried them on. I tried them on, and they’re way too big.

I guess I’m actually the size I thought I was and I’m not just imagining the weight loss. I still have some more progress to make, but it’s nice to have some sort of tangible confirmation I’m not just pretending.

This is maybe more of a small mental healing victory, but it feels significant in some way. Hopefully it’ll help motivate me onward as I trudge along toward goal weight and maintenance.

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anyone have any advice/experience on the “back half” of weight loss?

happy new year! I’ll try to explain without giving my whole life story.

basically i’ve always been a little overweight. always wanting to lose 20-30 lbs but never being able to commit and follow through.

then my dad died, and my habits spiraled into terrible BDE and i gained 40-50 lbs, putting me just over 200 at 5’5.

over the past two years i’ve lost 50 lbs steadily and healthily, mainly through CICO and the gym when it was open.

but now i’m back at my “starting” weight from years ago, around 150, the very spot i had trouble with in the past. my goal weight is around 125-130. honestly it feels like the first 50 lbs were “easier” in that i was so overweight before, once i started even the bare minimum of healthy habits it started coming off. but energy requirements decrease the more weight you lose so i feel like now what i’ve been doing won’t be enough. my goal weight feels more like a mythical concept than a concrete possibility.

did anyone else hit plateaus or have more difficulty the closer they get to their GW? is there a way you overcome it or any tips you know of? i’m honestly at a loss and just don’t want to continue stuck in this spot.

thanks for reading!

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Got my first positive weight-related comment today!

I gained a decent amount (around 15 pounds) in quarantine, up from my old highest of 139 lbs. After a failed weight loss stint in September (gained it all back in October and first half of Nov.), I started again on Nov. 23. Since then, I am down about 11.5 pounds and I feel really great. I feel overall smaller, my face slimmed down, and my brother came up to me and mentioned that I got kind of slim. I'm glad that its noticeable and I finally feel like I have been doing something sustainable. I don't get discouraged when I don't see changes in the scale, I just keep going and it eventually goes down.

My main tactic has been to cut gluten, dairy, and added sugar (did this for my skin), which automatically makes the remaining foods pretty healthy, and casual calorie counting (usually about 1200-1800 depending on the day). Cutting out those food groups has not been too difficult, surprisingly. I can still make a lot of delicious food without them. I am 5'5, F, SW: 154, CW: 142.5. Really looking forward to dropping another 20 over the next couple of months.

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Trying to live healthier but family really just loves sticking their nose in your business sometimes.

Me: I should probably watch how I eat. I'm starting to see my ribs.

Mother: Good. You should lose some more weight. (said with absolutely no sarcasm or mockery and was plain serious sadly)

Bruh. As if that 15lbs weight loss for me to get down to an optimal healthy weight (that's now obviously decreased more without me noticing) hasn't been enough already. Yeesh this is why I'm reluctant being around family sometimes.

I'm sorry if this doesn't belong here. I know that 15lbs wasn't very much to lose when I had to. Though I have to admit, it was already difficult for me to do so but I felt happy upon achieving it. So now, it feels off putting when someone downright tries to sabotage your health choices.

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